Home working 2020
Download the Excel workbook that's available on this ONS webpage: bit.ly/ons_hw_page

It contains estimates of the numbers of people working from home in the UK in 2020.

Read the Guardian article (May 2021) that uses it as a source: bit.ly/gdn_hw

Answer the questions below.
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1. The article's headline refers to the estimated figure of 25.9% of people working from home in 2020. Which table in the Excel workbook gives this figure?
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2. In the article's second paragraph, where does the ONS link take the reader?
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3. The ONS figures in Table 6 ('Ever work at home') are used to create the article's map of the UK. The map's percentage figure for Wales (34%) has been rounded off from what number in the spreadsheet?
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4. In the article's fifth paragraph, home working was "lowest in rural Scotland". Using Table 11 ('Ever work at home'), find the area in Scotland this refers to.
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5. Table 11 ('Ever work at home') has four areas with * instead of a figure. Why?
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6. In paragraph four, the journalist writes that 70% of working people in Richmond upon Thames worked from home, and the article's final chart shows the ten areas with the highest percentage of home workers. Which of the top ten are based on 'less precise' estimates from Table 11 ('Ever work at home')?
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7. In paragraph nine, we read that "more than half of managers, directors, senior officials and professional staff worked from home". How many of the 'major occupation groups' in Table 4 ('Ever work at home') are over 50%?
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